Kitty Giraudel
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarKitty Giraudel is a transfeminine front-end engineer and accessibility advocate based in Berlin with 13 years of experience and nearly 15 years of leadership experience in engineering. They specialize in building maintainable, user-focused interfaces, migrating and hardening static sites (notably Jekyll projects), and improving developer tooling and documentation for Sass and accessibility projects. Kitty has contributed core parsing logic for documentation generators and streamlined build systems and deployments, demonstrating strengths across UI/UX, build automation, and back-end scripting. A prolific open-source maintainer, their work on projects like sass-guidelines, SassDoc, and a11y.css reflects a commitment to scalable stylesheets and accessible web experiences. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, they blend technical craft with advocacy for diversity and accessibility in tech — and occasionally describe themselves as a real-life cat.
13 years of coding experience
English, Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (35)
accessibility10
styles10
github-ci10
javascript10
website-development10
stylesheets10
ui-components10
testing10
css-in-js10
css10
sass10
gulp10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
SassDoc/sassdoc
Jun 2014 - Jun 2020
Release the docs!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 371 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Kitty was primarily focused on developing and maintaining the SassDoc project, as evidenced by the creation of the core logic for parsing and documenting Sass code. They were responsible for implementing the fundamental architecture of the documentation generation, including parsing the Sass files and generating documentation. Their work involved the use of JavaScript for creating the documentation generator, with a focus on improving code quality.
csssassscss
4ae9b8/browserhacks
Jan 2013 - Apr 2016
An extensive list of CSS/JS browserhacks from all over the interwebs.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:380 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kitty's contributions primarily focused on the implementation of the front-end of the application by adding and modifying CSS and HTML. The user added initial CSS styling to the application, and modified index.html with HTML structure. Furthermore, the user added, modified, and refactored a range of styles.
browserscssjavascriptcss-js
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